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Search For Victim In Beating Caught On Tape {Oakland}
CBS Channel 5 SF, Oakland, San Jose ^ | 8/24/05 | Simon Perez

Posted on 08/24/2005 3:01:43 PM PDT by freebilly

(CBS 5) Oakland police are learning more about a brutal beating caught on tape and sold on DVD.

The DVD is called "World's Wildest Street Fights," and the scene was taped in Oakland about three years ago. Oakland police found out about the tape Monday, and don't know who the victim is, or if she's alive.

"As it stands right now, or homicide section has not been able to identify any unsolved homicides for that time period," said Oakland Police Department spokesperson Danielle Ashford.

Investigators believe that the woman was attacked in a parking lot that is now a charter school. The video shows her trapped in the back seat of a car, getting pummeled. Then the crowd pulls her from the car, and she's kicked and punched from all sides, supposedly as payback for cooperating with police.

Witnesses to many crimes in Oakland are afraid to cooperate because of fears of retaliation.

"They have some legitimate concerns," said Ashford. "But we do everything that we can on our end to ensure their safety, to make sure that we get a solid case and they won't be harmed."

Police are trying to identify people and cars in the video, but the only person seen clearly is the victim, and no one has come forward to say who she is.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: assault; drugs; fight; gang; lynching; mob; oakland; race; snitch; videotape
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Pretty brutal video (google it). Apparently this happened in 2002. Dozens and dozens of people were involved. A car is destroyed, a woman is brutally beaten and possibly killed, a video is made of this disgusting scene and not a single person comes forward to tell the truth. The Oakland police have not, until yesterday, known anything at all about this.

This is the legacy of 50 years of welfare and liberalism in our cities....

1 posted on 08/24/2005 3:01:46 PM PDT by freebilly
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Not to mention a society so depraved this DVD can be marketed successfully.


2 posted on 08/24/2005 3:04:48 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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This is weird - can't they just check the hospitals around that time??? That would be the 1st place I'd look. And, maybe, I pray not, for funerals or obituaries, even.


3 posted on 08/24/2005 3:05:18 PM PDT by jackibutterfly
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To: freebilly

I saw the video when Drudge linked to it a couple of days ago. For the life of me, I don't understand why the driver didn't pop the car into reverse and just floor it to get out of there.


4 posted on 08/24/2005 3:07:10 PM PDT by Melpomene
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To: freebilly
Not easy to watch.
5 posted on 08/24/2005 3:08:30 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: martin_fierro

Thanks for the link.


6 posted on 08/24/2005 3:14:43 PM PDT by freebilly (Go USF Baseball!)
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That has to be the most sickening thing I have ever seen. God Bless Her, whatever her fate was.


7 posted on 08/24/2005 3:16:29 PM PDT by JRios1968 (We're no longer the "Knights Who Say Ni")
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***king savages. I hope every one of those punks get murdered in a drive-by.

There must be some way to identify the assailants from stills of the video.
8 posted on 08/24/2005 3:16:31 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Proud member of the 21st century Christian Crusaders)
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You think CNN will play this around the clock the way they played the beating of Rodney King...?


9 posted on 08/24/2005 3:19:50 PM PDT by freebilly (Go USF Baseball!)
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"You think CNN will play this around the clock the way they played the beating of Rodney King...?"

Ummmmmmmmm................NO. Wrong color attacking wrong color doesn't make news.

10 posted on 08/24/2005 3:27:12 PM PDT by nobody_knows (Mother hold the candle steady while I shave the chicken's lips.)
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Nothing will happen even if they can be identified! Remember what happened to those who attacked Reginald Denny (sp?)?


11 posted on 08/24/2005 3:37:47 PM PDT by Roccus (I've been described as a cynical romantic. Also a romantic cynic.)
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Savages allowed to roam free. This is so sad.


12 posted on 08/24/2005 3:44:55 PM PDT by raybbr
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The Oakland police have not, until yesterday, known anything at all about this

That is the one detail in the story that I'd be most likely to question.

13 posted on 08/24/2005 3:46:47 PM PDT by PAR35
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"That would be the 1st place I'd look. And, maybe, I pray not, for funerals or obituaries, even."

I doubt crack whores dumped in the landfill get a funeral or obituary.

14 posted on 08/24/2005 3:50:59 PM PDT by Godebert
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Whoever she was, she didn't deserve to die that way.

I couldn't watch this, beyond the opening seconds. The guy she is with - her pimp, possibly, or her "boyfriend" - opens the backdoor so they can get her?

It would be an insult to animals to call these people animals.


15 posted on 08/24/2005 3:57:01 PM PDT by livius
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The aggregate IQ of a mob is equal to that of its' least intelligent member.


16 posted on 08/24/2005 4:08:34 PM PDT by thegreatbeast (Quid lucrum istic mihi est?)
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The aggregate IQ of a mob is equal to that of its' least intelligent member.

Actually, it's equal to 1/2 of its least intelligent member.

17 posted on 08/24/2005 4:21:06 PM PDT by Alien Gunfighter (Socialist liberals never imagine themselves as peasants under their 'perfect' socialist regime)
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Wow, Damian "Football" Williams would be so proud of his coward brethren (men and women alike).

If there were a video of US guards at Abou Gharab doing anything which even SLIGHTLY resembled this evil attack (and to sh*tbag terrorists no less), Bush would be impeached thanks to the screams by the liberal c**ks**kers in our own Congress and in the MSM.

The viciousness of this attack is just stunning--makes Reginald Denny's beating look like a game of marbles. And what is even more stunning is that so many "people" could attack another human being in this manner and still sleep at night. But when you look at the video, you know it can't be a "hate" crime. Wrong characteristics don't you know. Jesse and Reverend Al would have no "concern" after viewing this video, I'm quite sure.

May every one of those disgusting pigs who took even one whack at this tortured human get what is deserving of them in the afterlife, if not now. May they never have a good night's sleep again (yeah, as-if!)


18 posted on 08/24/2005 4:30:26 PM PDT by Husker8877
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"Ummmmmmmmm................NO. Wrong color attacking wrong color doesn't make news."

and no LEO involved
19 posted on 08/24/2005 4:42:03 PM PDT by Texas_Jarhead
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To: thegreatbeast

Very true.


20 posted on 08/24/2005 5:13:36 PM PDT by livius
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